Identifier: centuryillustratv43n2newy (find matches)
Title: The century illustrated monthly magazine
Year: 1882 (1880s)
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Subjects: American literature
Publisher: New York : Century Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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ever a fine was to be paid. Thefines were levied in this order: A keg of beerupon the birth of a son, the club tankard ofbeer (a splendid carved cup holding twoquarts) on the birth of a girl, a glass all aroundfor talking politics. If my readers were allNew Yorkers I should not need, in parting withthis phase of the life I am describing, to say thatthese clubs and people are nearly all respect-able, orderly, industrious, and valuable citizens. Merely in passing I spoke of the lodging-houses as notable features of the .Bowery.They are almost peculiar to it. There mustbe a score of them. Invariably they occupythe upper stories of the larger and newer build-ings along the huge and swarming thorough-fare, and therefore passengers in the elevatedcars get the clearest idea of their interiors.From the pavement all that is seen of themare their signs, which read about like this: EAST SIDE HOUSE. FOR GENTLEMEN ONLY. Rooms, 15 cents. or AMERICA HOTEL. LODGINGS FOR MEN ONLY.Nice Rooms, 25 cents.
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THE BOWERY. 233 Within recent years these have multiplied tosuch an extent as to bring about a keen com-petition, and he who runs may read the forceof this in single lines that have been added tomany of the signs. These addenda all indicatea general desire to do more than supply mererooms as of old. Baths free of charge, is theannouncement of one landlord ; Reductionsby the week, another offers; A Cup of GoodCoffee served Mornings to Each Lodger, saysa third. As you look into each house from theElevated Railway you invariably see a largeassembly-room, bare-walled but clean, and setwith tables and chairs. There is no hour of theday when there are not many men in each room,some merely lounging in the chairs, some read-ing papers, some playing dominoes, and nearlyall smoking. In passing some of these lodg-ings a glimpse is had of bedrooms which rentfor a quarter of a dollar a night with a cup ofcoffee gratis. They are mere closets made byrunning partitions up five feet apart from thefloo

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